Revolver and cartridge-clip.



J. H. WESSON.

REVOLVER AND CARTRIDGE CUP.

APPLICATION man Aums, 1911.

1,258, 1 70. Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

By Attorneys,

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j meets in Revolvers and Cartridge-Clips, of i i To, all whom it mayconcern: W 1Be it known that I, Josnrrr Wesson, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America,

residing in Springfield, in the county of Hainpden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvewhichthefollowing is a specification.

1 Thisinvention relates to means for correla-tingthercartridge'cylinderof a revolver and the clip or clips holding cart-ridges loaded into suchcylinder.

In order to facilitate the loading of rea volvers, the practice ofprovidingclips into bled, and Which accomplish the simultanewhich thecartridges are previously assemcos loading of the cartridges into therevolver chambers, has been largely adopted.

For a six-chambered revolver it is customary toconstruct the clips tohold three cartridges, so that two. cartridge packs of threecartridgeseach are loaded into the'revolver cha'mbers. This accomplishes thedesirable Iquick reloading of the revolver, but is subject to adisadvantage which it is the purpose of the present invention toovercome. I j

a In order that the cartridges may enter thecylinder chambers readily,it is necessary i so Htively, whereby the clips are held in proper i ito provide a considerable amount of play or freedom between'thecartridge clip and the 4 necks of the cartridges. This play allows thecartridge clip to slip around somewhat when the cartridges are held inthe chambers. It is desirable to prevent this loose play of thecartridge clip and hold it in a fixed or definite position with relationto the revolver cylinder.

To this end the present invention provides interfitting provis ons onthe rear face of the cylinderand on the cartridge clips respec-,

concentric position relatively to thecylinder. :The interfittingprovisions are preferably formed as recesses in the rear face of thecylinder, and projections from the clips entering these recesses. It isdesirable that j j the clips-should be capable of use either side up,"so that in loading the'clips with cartridges it shall be unnecessary topresent the cli'pswith one side up rather than the other; and toaccomplish this the clips .are made with projections to both sides. sothat whichever side fits against the cylinder, the projections on thatside will'be efiective to enter the recesses in. the cylinder.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented hlal'. 5, 1918. Applicationfiled Augiist 15, 1917. Serial No. 186,318; i

. reference to the accompanying drawings,

wherein,- i i Figureil :is a side elevation of a fragment ofa revolver,showing the cylinder thereof swung out to the open position forreloading. A portion of the cylinder is shown in section taken on theline 1-1 in Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2+2 in Fig. 1,looking from the rear, showing the cylinder in the same position andloaded with three cartridges held in a clip, the other three chambersbeing empty;

, Fig." 8 is. an elevation of one of the clips; Fig. 4 is an edge viewthereof Fig. 5 is an enlarged section through the 7 clip on the line 55in Fig. 3.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the cylinder A is shown as an ordinarycylinder for a six chambered revolver," are being the cartridgechambers. It differs from the ordinary cylinder only'in havingdepressions or recesses b 12 formed at its rear face in"'the positionsshown-in Fig. 2. These. recesses can be advantageously formed 'bymilling them out as grooveswith curved bottoms.

The cartridge clip B in the form shown consists of a segmental ring ofthin metal plate having recesses c c for receivingthe grooved necks ofthe cartridges, the plate being sufiiciently resilient to permit thecartridges to be forced or snapped into these recesses, a constructionwhich is now well known. Each clip has projections d cl struck up fromit and adapted to enter the recesses 22 7) of the cylinder. Theprojections d d are formed as tongues partly severed from the metalplate, being located relatively to the cartridge recesses 0 0 inthe samepositions as the depressions b b in the cylinder with respect to thecartridge chambers a a;

so that when the cartridges ar loaded into the cylinder, the projections(Z d on the adjoiningside of theclip may enter into two of the recessesZ) 6. The projections cl (Z- are formed in pairs, best shown inFig. 5,so that they project to opposite sides of the clip in such manner thatthose on the front side which fit against therear face of the cylinderwill enterthe recesses of the cylthe clip simply project rearwardly andhave no function." This duplication of the projections d d enables thecllps to be loaded Wesson, orsrnmerrnnn; MASSACHUSETTS, AssIenoR TO SITH & Wesson, i or .srnnvermnn, MASSACHUSETTS, A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION.i i

incler; while those on the opposite side of j

